The collection 'Normal History' includes articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin, written and published in the 2010s. In non-fiction prose, the author does not change his favorite topics: food and drink as manifestations of a national character, Moscow an

The book contains the libretto of the scandalous opera 'Children of Rosenthal', new stories, screenplays.

Vladimir Sorokin's new stories are about women: at war and in a cruel world, in circumstances hostile to female nature. , accurate, very different portraits, and united by one: the experienced violence irreversibly changes them, but does not erase, but only exacerbates their individuality.

In this book, everything is very ordinary, and at the same time, everything is amazing. Ordinary guys go to school, do their homework, play, sometimes they get deuces. And suddenly they awaken such feelings that they had no idea about. An ordinary girl becomes the most beautiful in the world, and because of an ordinary boy, she does such desperate things that she is compared to a wild dingo dog...

Fedor Fedorovich Sviridov is a very successful and successful person, but terribly lonely. Having lost almost everything overnight - the house, the family where his beloved daughter remained - he takes in an orphaned dog named Apelsinych. And then two loneliness met and selflessly fell in love with each other. But a charming flutist appears in the life of Fyodor Fyodorovich..

It tells the story of Don Rumata, who is sent from Earth to the medieval kingdom of Arkanar with instructions to observe and to influence, but never to directly interfere. Masquerading as an arrogant nobleman, a dueler and a brawler, Don Rumata is never defeated but can never kill. With his doubt and compassion, and his deep love for a local girl named Kira, Rumata wants to save the kingdom...

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a 'full empty,'...

In 2114, humanity creates a new space group - the Free Search Group. Now any person, having received a spaceship and having registered a route, can go into outer space. Thousands of people rush to the stars... The romantic impulse is unstoppable, but terrible and cruel trials await young SHG volunteers. And humanity will have to face the consequences of the era of the rapid conquest of space...

William Fuller, a recognized expert on Russian military history, selected the notorious case of Colonel S. Myasoyedov and General V. Sukhomlinov as the topic of his new book. Involving the investigative materials not yet used by historians, the author combines the biographical narrative full of living details with the analysis of police, intelligence and judicial practices and offers a...